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SHOE LAGING. Patented July 2, 1887.

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ADOLPH ROCK. OF FOXBOROUGH, AND WILLIAM MOORHOUSE, O MANS -FIELD, MASSAGHUSETT Lam Patent No. 66,396, dated July 2, 1867.

IMPROVED SHOE-LAGIN G.

TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that we, ROCK, of Foxborough, in the county of Norfolk, and State of Ma WILLIAM MOORHO-USE, of Mansfield, in the county of Bristol, and State of Massachusetts, and improved Lacing for Boots and Shoes; and we do hereby declare that the followin exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification. v

The present invention relates to the lacing up of boots and shoes, whether it be along the frontor side or rear portion of the same; and it consists in attaching to the boot or shoe, either' directly or indirectly, along each edge of the slit or opening which is to be laced up with the lacing-cord used, a series of arms, each carryssachusetts, and

g is a full, clear, and same, reference being ing a similar roller, that are hung in each of the said arms so as to freely revolve or turn, these arms being of such a form as to allow the lacingcord to be passed around and about the rollers from. one to the other, and across from one side of the opening in the boot or shoe to the other, as is now the case with the ordinary eyelet-holes of boots and shoes. In the accompanying plate of drawings our improved lacing for boots and shoes is illushated-- Figui-e 1 being a face view of a portion of a boot or shoe upper, having it applied thereto in one form.

Figure 2, a transverse section, taken in the plane of the line w a, fig. 1.

Figure 3, a face view of our improved arrangement independent of a boot or shoe, or, in other words, before being applied to the same; and

Figure 4, a transverse section, taken in the plane of the line 3 y, fig. 3.

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AA in the drawings represent a series of arms, each carrying a similar roller, B, grooved around their peripheries, and hung to the said arms so as to freely turn or revolve therein, an opening, G, being left in the arms inside of the rollers to allow a cord to be passed through and thus about the rollers. These arms A, carrying rollers as above described, are to be fastened in any proper manner to the upper of the boot or shoe, upon the outside of the same, and along each edge of the slit or opening made in the same, which it is intended to lace up with a cord, the arms being placed at equal distances apart, and at corresponding points along both edges of the said boot or shoe slit or opening, in which position the lacing-cord can be passed around and about the said rollers, across from one to the other, as plainly shown in fig. 1 of the drawings. In fig. 1, in li u of attaching the arm carrying rollers to the boot or shoe separate and distinct from each other,"they are first secured to a common holder or frame D, consisting of two similar side pieces, E, joined together at one end by a cross-piece, F, pivoted to them at each end, and then this frame secured to the upper of the boot or shoe at the proper'part of the same to bring its several rollers along the line of the slit or opening in the boot or shoe, it being found most practicable, when the rollers are applied to the boot or shoe, in the manner above stated, through a common holder or frame, to form the side pieces of such frame intwo or'more sections or parts pivoted together, so that it can adjust itself more p'erfectly'to the form of the foot on which the boot or shoe having it applied is to be worn. p t

' With a boot or shoe laced through the use of a series of rollers, as above explained, it is plainly obvious that to lace or unlace it is but the'work of a moment, as it were, and that itcan be accomplished with the utmost ease facility, and readiness.

We claim as new, and desiroto-secure by Letters Patent-- The construction and arrangementof the shoe-lacing, consisting of the grooved rollers B, pivoted between the arms A in such]: manner that an opening, 0, shall be .left in said arms inside of said rollers, said arms secured opposite each other upon each sidetof the slit in the shoe, or upon a frame, D, substantially as described for the purpose specified.

The abovespecificationof our invention signed by us this 8th day of September, 1866.

ADOLPH ROCK, WM. MOORHOUSE.

Witnesses:

Wu. F. MONAMARA, ALBERT W. Baows.

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